Words matter. These are the best Error Quotes from famous people such as Michael Servetus, Chrissy Teigen, Aaron Rodgers, Alvin Toffler, Henry St. John, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
I tweet from bed. I love it because it’s so quick. And it’s funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don’t sense the sarcasm – there’s no sarcasm font.
Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It’ll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
I went to Catholic schools my entire life and never had anything close to a cis heterosexual sexual education let alone a queer one. Everything I learned was trial and error or the Internet or ‘Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.’
There is no original truth, only original error.
A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
No man’s error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Our great cultural error is to assume that ‘truth’ arrives only through reductive theories.
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
How is an error possible in mathematics?
One of the advantages of going to a small school is that you’re expected to be the man. They have to give you the ball, and there’s more room for error in a situation where you can play your way through mistakes (and no matter how good you are, this is a valuable coping skill at the NBA level).
The entire making of ‘Within and Without’ was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn’t have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off.
The French word for wanderlust or wandering is ‘errance.’ The etymology is the same as ‘error.’ So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
My mom was the organized enforcer. When someone crossed the line, mom was pretty clear-minded about how to… correct that error. But my dad led by his example, so we never wanted to do anything wrong that would, that would upset him or disturb him.
I always tell young film-makers, ‘Find the song that only you can sing.’ It doesn’t just come to you. It’s trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity.
Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there’s any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn’t have prosecuted the war. We shouldn’t have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
I knew what my fatal error was: After running perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 meters. I could not cover the lost ground after that – and that cost me the race. After the death of my parents, that is my worst memory. I kept crying for days.
If we didn’t have genetic mutations, we wouldn’t have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
The journey to the completion of ‘Year Of The Tiger’ was very interesting and full of a lot of trial and error.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn’t really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term – a century-long – error by Europe.
If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.
The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don’t have that full commitment when you’re pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there’s not much room for error, and you’ll come off worse.
I always get frustrated when I hear someone talking about sweep arpeggios. Though there are plenty of licks and examples out there, no one has ever really broken down the mechanics of the technique. As a result, guitarists have had to figure them out by trial and error.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Terrorists are people, too – they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I’m thinking of DeLillo’s contention in ‘Mao II’ that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who ‘alter the inner-life of the culture.’ I thought that was marvellous!
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It’s all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
It’s an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
Delay is preferable to error.
Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
